The very same means that the cyber vandals used a few weeks ago [in the denial-of-service cyber attacks on several major Web sites] could also be used on a much more massive scale at the nation-state level to generate truly damaging interruptions to the national economy and infrastructure.

We had checked with the ESD (Educational Service District) last week, and they told us about 50 percent of the schools in the ESD were open today.

Load sharing across multiple servers helps reduce the impact of classic [distributed denial-of-service] attacks because there are multiple versions of a Web site operating across the Internet,

This new technology provides enhanced denial of service attack coverage. Denial of service is becoming a bigger and bigger problem in the industry, as many customers are receiving extortion-related calls.

The American media seems to be either unaware or unconcerned that when it carries video of an [improvised bomb attack], it is running terrorist video and thus doing their work for them.

I am convinced that information operations from both sides are increasing and intensifying. I think both sides are beginning to understand that this struggle will be waged in both the kinetic and informational realms, but that the latter is the decisive area of operations. The insurgents target several audiences, including the Islamic world and the American populace.